CLEAN/SAFE TREATMENT ACUPUNCTURE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a clean/safe treatment acupuncture having a structure with which the fingers of a treating person does not directly come into contact with the skin of a patient nor an acupuncture body during a treatment, without deteriorating the sense of the fingers of the treating person, in order to achieve the clean/safe acupuncture treatment. SOLUTION: A soft and thin plastic tube 4 which has a designed shape and an inner diameter larger than the outer diameter of an acupuncture tube 2, is mounted on the acupuncture tube 2. In usage, one end of the acupuncture tube 2 constituting the treatment acupuncture is fixed to a treatment point on a human body so as to be perpendicular to the skin by grasping the outer surface of the plastic tube 4 by two fingers of one hand. In this case, one end of the tube having a cut 5 is opened on a skin surface like a petal, which is some help to prevent the skin and the fingers from directly coming into contact with each other. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI